As part of the Open Market Consultation, INCAREHEART has made available an online questionnaire to obtain market feedback on the planned procurement. Do you have comments on any of the use cases? Do you think that the budget and timeframe of the project are appropriate? Let us know before the 31st of August.
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The US Federal Government has been a leader in sustainable acquisition for more than two decades. Our panel discussion will address the importance of past and current federal sustainable acquisition initiatives in providing energy-r...
We are currently conducting a market questionnaire to better understand the state of telerehabilitation and the barriers to successful implementation, current trends, and future opportunities to advance Remote Rehabilitation for Isolated Areas procurement.
We cordially invite you to participate in ROSIA's Questionnaire https://rosia-pcp.eu/omc-questionnaire/
The questionnaire is open to all companies participating in various aspects of e-health procurement.
We are investigating...
Best Value is een van de krachtigste nieuwe managementparadigma’s in het aankooplandschap. Dat blijkt uit de vele resultaten zowel uit de profit- als de non-profit organisaties.
Centraal, staat bij Best Value het selecteren van de best beschikbare leverancier. De best beschikbare leverancier is de partij die de hoogste kwaliteit levert tegen de laagste prijs.
Best Value is een filosofie die uit Amerika komt en reeds vele jaren wereldwijd ingezet wordt. Binnen Europa vooral in Nederland, No...
We are proud to announce that a Prior Information Notice for project TIQUE has been published in TED (Tenders Electronic Daily -a Supplement of the Official Journal of the EU). This means TIQUE’s June 2022 tender is officially underway!
Follow the link to read the notice: https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:374082-2021:TEXT:EN:HTML
It also means an Open Market Consultation (OMC) involving the market in the design of the specifications of next year’s tender will be taking plac...
COME ON BOARD! STEP INTO ROSIA’s OPEN MARKET CONSULTATION
The three European public procurers participating in ROSIA are planning to invest, via a Pre-Commercial Procurement instrument (PCP), up to 3.9M€ to develop an ICT Innovation Ecosystem to meet telerehabilitation needs in isolated areas.
In preparation for the PCP’s call for tender, and starting 12 July, ROSIA will conduct an Open Market Consultation (OMC) to design the tender’s requirements incorporating the market’s input.
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A quick look at this month’s headlines:
• Main article: Results of first reporting exercise on Strategic Procurement from the European Commission
• Interview: Preparing the groundwork to improve action on GPP in Lithuania - ArÅ«nÄ— AndrulionienÄ—, Senior Advisor at the Public Procurement Office (Lithuania)
• Good practice case: Poland’s first swimming pool meeting passive energy use standards - Municipality of Sulejów (Poland)
• Good practice case: Kantoor2023: a sustainable and ci...
On 16 September, four European innovation experts will present their public procurement on Innovation projects, focusing on different aspects of innovation procurement.
BroadWay is a Pre-Commercial Procurement Project funded under the Horizon 2020 Research Programme (Innovation activity to enable a pan-European broadband mobile system for PPDR, validated by sustainable test and evaluation capabilities). The project, running from 2018 to 2022, is coordinated by Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE) and composed of 11 buyers from 11 EU countries, which are the organisations responsible for transitioning to broadband for Public Safety Communication...
Since March 2021, the EU has been implementing new regulations regarding energy labels. The new labelling requirements are progressively being rolled out to 9 product categories, which has significant impacts for public procurers purchasing or leasing electric appliances.
In order to assist public procurers with this transition, the BELT project has just published a White Paper summarising key provisions of the new EU energy labelling system and providing recommendations to public procurers f...
8 suppliers are expected to be awarded to start solution design in Phase 1, in November 2021. The call will be open until 15th September
The Pre-Commercial Procurement project eCare launches its call for tenders that will remain open until the 15th of September 2021. The call is open to all types of operators presenting an offer as a single entity or in a joint tender. Awarded suppliers will enter a competitive process of 3 phases where they have the opportunity to co-develop and test their...
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PSCE is the coordinator of a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) in the frame of BroadGNSS Eu-funded project (Innovation activity for Applications, Synchronisation and Monitoring of Critical Mobile Broadband Communication Infrastructure and Information Assets for Public Protection and Disaster Recovery (PPDR) Operations).
In preparation for the BroadGNSS PCP request for tender, an Open Market Consultation (OMC) with potential tenderers and end-users is held to hear the views of the mar...
In this month's issue you can read about the following:
• New European Commission guidance on Buying Social
• Interview: Portugal’s National Strategy for Green Public Procurement makes progress - José Paulino, Environment Agency (Portugal)
• Good practice: Upgrading streetlights using an Energy Service Company model (City of Gabrovo, Bulgaria)
• Zoom in on… Big Buyers launches four working groups
• Zoom in on… LCC tool for indoor office lighting
• Zoom in on… Renewable energy for buildings
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On June 30th (12:00-13:00 CET), the Connecting Nature Enterprise Summit will be bringing together public buyers and companies working in the NBS sector to share best practice on the public procurement of NBS.
Including NBS in public tenders or responding to public tenders for NBS can be challenging for both public aut...
INCAREHEART brings together five procurers: Region Jämtland Härjedalen (Sweden), Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy), Region of Central Macedonia (Greece), Santa Casa Da Misericordia Da Amadora (Portugal) and Ministry of Health of Turkey.
Together they will devote €4,650,000 to a Pre-commercial Procurement of innovative ICT-enabled integrated care solutions to advance multidisciplinary health and care for patients with chronic heart failure. In preparation for the PCP Cal...
23rd of June, the City Council of Carcaixent, with the collaboration of the Energy Area of the Consorci de la Ribera, will hold an on-line OPEN MARKET CONSULTATION prior to the preparation of a PPI in the framework of the project "SMART BUILDING CPI 2020”. https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:299684-2021:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0
The event is aimed at designers of innovative solutions interested in participating in the tender for the drafting of the refurbishment project of the building at C/...
Here is some more information from our latest report.
In complex product categories such as IT, social and environmental risks run high. TCO Development, the organization behind the sustainability certification for IT products TCO Certified, has launched the new report ‘Navigating the Sustainable IT Revolution – The critical role of independent verification’. The report helps buyers worldwide accurately verify social and environmental aspects of their purchases.
“The millions of workers...
PSCE is the coordinator of a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) in the frame of BroadGNSS Eu-funded project (Innovation activity for Applications, Synchronisation and Monitoring of Critical Mobile Broadband Communication Infrastructure and Information Assets for Public Protection and Disaster Recovery (PPDR) Operations).
In preparation for the BroadGNSS PCP request for tender, an Open Market Consultation (OMC) with potential tenderers and end-users is held to hear the views of the mar...
Dear friend,
If you already participated in UNEP’s 2021 Sustainable Procurement Stakeholder Survey, we thank you for your participation. Your responses will help us learn more about sustainable procurement implementation, possible barriers and facilitators, current trends, and opportunities to increase sustainable procurement activities.
This email is a reminder to those who have not completed the survey. There is still time. The survey is open through 11 June 2021. As a recognized lead...
In preparation of the PCP call for tender, ROSIA will conduct an Open Market Consultation (OMC) with potential tenderers to broach the views of the market about its scope. As part of the preparation for an innovative drives procurement action, the OMC involves the proactive analysis of technology offer and provides a pre-information to the market in order to give a congruous time for the preparation of fit-for-purpose proposals.
Prior to the OMC, four online information events organiz...
On 15 June, the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) is organizing an informative webinar to learn more about the first edition of the European Innovation Procurement Awards 2021 (EUIPA). Applications are open and the deadline for submissions is 29 July 2021.
EUIPA Awards recognises powerful cases of public and private buyers (procurers) on using innovation procurement practices across Europe. It aims to support the community of European procurers to share, work toge...
On June 14th 2021, 4-5 pm CET a group of countries and regions is launching the Circular and Fair ICT Pact (CFIT). Participants of this new international partnership will use their collective procurement power to accelerate the ICT sector towards becoming more circular and fair. Actions will be taken in good dialogue with the ICT industry and other relevant actors. The pact is an initiative under the UN One Planet Network SPP Programme.
You can register here and more information can be...
The UN Environmental Programme is partnering with Arizona State University researchers and other experts to develop the 2021 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement, following the 2013 and 2017 editions.
We are currently conducting a stakeholder survey to better understand the state of sustainable procurement, the barriers to successful implementation, current trends, and future opportunities to advance sustainable procurement. The results of the survey will be analysed and integ...
Stuart,
Following on from Steve's message, we would be interested to know how your procurement thinking around carbon evolves, did you know that the MOD is thinking of imposing a carbon tax on all their ICT purchases in order to drive change in their supply chain ? Or that DEFRA's advice is to repair, reuse or purchase remanufactured instead of new as a last resort? What are your thoughts on any of this ?
Your question.
We are really happy that organisations are starting to ask these imp...